ADMS 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Superficiality, Taking Steps

• School: York University
• Department: Administrative Studies
• Course: ADMS 1010
• Professor: Diane Jurkowski

Document Summary

How work and authority will be distributed. Guiding and moivaing members towards the organizaion"s goals. Assessing if organizaion is progressing towards goals. Taking steps to deal with obstacles and problems. Folklores and facts of the manager"s job by mintzberg: Aciviies are characterized by brevity, variety, disconinuity. Of aciviies last less than 9 minutes average 583 aciviies in 8 hour shit (1 every 48 seconds) Work for hour or more once every 2 days. Many regular duies including: ritual & ceremonial negoiaions processing of sot informaion that links organizaion to its environment. Evidence: small companies can"t aford staf specialists the manager steps in to ill gaps see important customers ceremonial duies meeing dignitaries, giving out gold watches, christmas dinners rouine part of managers work. Managers need aggregated informaion provided by formal management informaion system. Managers favour verbal media, telephone calls and meeings over documents. Preference for sot informaion (gossip, hearsay, speculaion) due to need for speed".